Ian Austin

The Right Honourable The Lord Austin of Dudley
Official portrait, 2017
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
In office 9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Iain Wright
Succeeded by	Bob Neill
Minister for the West Midlands
In office 6 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Liam Byrne
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Assistant Government Whip
In office 5 October 2008 – 9 June 2009
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Chief Whip	Nick Brown
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office 27 June 2007 – 4 October 2008 Serving with Angela Smith
Prime Minister	Gordon Brown
Preceded by	Keith Hill
Succeeded by	Jon Trickett
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 September 2020 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Dudley North
In office 5 May 2005 – 6 November 2019
Preceded by	Ross Cranston
Succeeded by	Marco Longhi
Personal details
Born	Ian Christopher Austin (1965-03-06) 6 March 1965 (age 59) Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Political party	Non-affiliated (since 2019)
Other political affiliations	Labour (1983–2019)
Alma mater	University of Essex
Signature
Website	parliament..ian-austin

Ian Christopher Austin, Baron Austin of Dudley (born 6 March 1965) is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 general election when he stood down. Formerly a member of the Labour Party, he resigned from the party on 22 February 2019 to sit as an independent, and was ennobled in the 2019 Dissolution Honours. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government from 2009 to 2010.